What a well fought win against the Posh. A lot of players stepped up to the plate for this one and gave a good account of themselves.

There is a great team spirit and solidarity within the squad and nothing typifies that more than the players asking Cooper to give Nile another chance. And there is no denying, we are a better team when he plays. Just hope that he has finally seen the error of his ways; but …….

Mind you, call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you want, but once Nile was on the team sheet, he was always going to score. As perth red said on the live match day threat, no one saw that coming. But didn’t he take his chance well.

Still 2 very hard games to come against Peterborough in the JPT, though I feel a little more optimistic about the outcome.

Comments (21)

Man of the Match Award
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Four posters scored a grand total of 9pts, myself included; back in the points after a poor showing over the holiday period. Along with myself, Bondy54, jgcirencester and Oz ashes also score 9pts. Red white and guyswonga get 11pts each.

We have double winners again for this match. One picking up their first MotM award, and one gaining their 4th award and thus going back to the top of the Hall of Fame table

.*.*.*.*.*. Norfolk69er 13pts .*.*.*.*.*.

Earning his first award of the season

.*.*.*.*.*. Badger58 13pts .*.*.*.*.*.

Earning his fourth award of the season

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Man of the Match Award
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Four posters scored a grand total of 9pts, myself included; back in the points after a poor showing over the holiday period. Along with myself, Bondy54, jgcirencester and Oz ashes also score 9pts. Red white and guyswonga get 11pts each.
We have double winners again for this match. One picking up their first MotM award, and one gaining their 4th award and thus going back to the top of the Hall of Fame table
.*.*.*.*.*. Norfolk69er 13pts .*.*.*.*.*.
Earning his first award of the season
.*.*.*.*.*. Badger58 13pts .*.*.*.*.*.
Earning his fourth award of the season
.Rebel_phish

CORRECT SCORE = 2-1
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Four posters predicted a Town loss and with the onslaught that Post mounted in the 2nd half that looked like the probable outcome. But Town got a great second, against the run of play and although they conceded towards the end, they were able to hang on for the win.

Two more posters predicted the right margin of victory with a 3-2 scoreline and both get 3pts.
jgcirencester
Oldhamred

Ten more went for either 2 goals for Swindon or 1 goal for Peterborough and pick up 2pts each.
Airframe-dtm
CraftyPig
ctown_red
Glosteroldboy
Helpme234
louiscassius
NEWBURYNICK
Oxon-Red
Redgollum
Roy Carter

ATTENDANCE = 7,794
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A very poor turn-out for this match considering. Everyone was expecting around 500 to 700 more than actually attended.
Only one poster went below 8,000 with 7,996 and thus is the only one to pick up a point for this question for being within 250.
dazinblack

As said in the write-up, no one saw that Ranger would be playing, so no points.

Just one poster got the time right at 28 minutes and gets 2pts
Red white

NUMBER OF CORNERS = 12
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Same number of corners as the last game and ten of you went for 12 corners and get a further 2pts
Badger58
Bondy54
Oz ashes
Rebel phish
jgcirencester
Oldhamred
CraftyPig
Oxon-Red
Redgollum
Roy Carter

TIME OF THE LAST STFC SUB = 85 min
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Miles Storey came on just after Tomlin got his marching orders. Just one of you got this right and therefore gets 2pts
Redgollum

HOW MANY MINUTES OF ADDED TIME = 11
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There was 3:24 in the first half and 7:08 minutes added in the second half. Therefore there were a total of 10:32 minutes played.
No one went that high for the amount of added time but a point for being nearest with 8 minutes is
perth red

14 went for 3 squad changes, which seemed reasonable, but with Ranger coming in that made 4 and just one person went for that number of changes. 2pts for
Roy Carter

NICKY AJOSE = Started
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Nicky Ajose was in the starting line up for Posh, yet many of you expected him to feature in the match from the bench. That still left 7 of you predicting that he would play from the first whistle for 2pts
ctown_red
guyswonga
jason900
louiscassius
Norfolk 69er
perth red
red white

And four the League Two goal count right
Badger58
jgcirencester
Norfolk 69er
Guyswonga

Well played to Badger58 and jgcirencester, both who managed to get 2 of the three leagues goal count right. Well done.

Points count and up to date Tables to follow later.

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DETAILED RESULTS
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CORRECT SCORE = 2-1
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Four posters predicted a Town loss and with the onslaught that Post mounted in the 2nd half that looked like the probable outcome. But Town got a great second, against the run of play and although they conceded towards the end, they were able to hang on for the win.
Ten posters got the correct result and pick up 7pts each.
Badger58
Bondy54
guyswonga
Kelliz
NEWBURYMIKE
NEWBURYSANDY
Norfolk 69er
Oz ashes
Rebel phish
red white
Two more posters predicted the right margin of victory with a 3-2 scoreline and both get 3pts.
jgcirencester
Oldhamred
Ten more went for either 2 goals for Swindon or 1 goal for Peterborough and pick up 2pts each.
Airframe-dtm
CraftyPig
ctown_red
Glosteroldboy
Helpme234
louiscassius
NEWBURYNICK
Oxon-Red
Redgollum
Roy Carter
ATTENDANCE = 7,794
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A very poor turn-out for this match considering. Everyone was expecting around 500 to 700 more than actually attended.
Only one poster went below 8,000 with 7,996 and thus is the only one to pick up a point for this question for being within 250.
dazinblack
1st STFC GOAL SCORER and TIME = Ranger 28mins
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As said in the write-up, no one saw that Ranger would be playing, so no points.
Just one poster got the time right at 28 minutes and gets 2pts
Red white
NUMBER OF CORNERS = 12
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Same number of corners as the last game and ten of you went for 12 corners and get a further 2pts
Badger58
Bondy54
Oz ashes
Rebel phish
jgcirencester
Oldhamred
CraftyPig
Oxon-Red
Redgollum
Roy Carter
TIME OF THE LAST STFC SUB = 85 min
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Miles Storey came on just after Tomlin got his marching orders. Just one of you got this right and therefore gets 2pts
Redgollum
HOW MANY MINUTES OF ADDED TIME = 11
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There was 3:24 in the first half and 7:08 minutes added in the second half. Therefore there were a total of 10:32 minutes played.
No one went that high for the amount of added time but a point for being nearest with 8 minutes is
perth red
TOTAL NUMBER OF SHOTS ON GOAL AND SHOTS ON TARGET = 19/8
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Swindon had 8 shots at goal and Peterborough 11. 5 of Town’s shot were on target while only 3 of Posh’s shots were goal bound.
Two posters got the total number of shots on goal right and get 2pts
ctown_red
Old-Stager, Hilperton
With 2 more getting the correct number of shots on target for a further 2pts
Norfolk 69er
louiscassius
NUMBER OF CHANGES TO STARTING 11 = 4
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With McEverley injured, Ajose back at Peterborough, Mason and N’Guessan over their ills of Boxing Day, Mark Cooper made four changes to the starting line-up that played at Bradford. Out went Jay McEveley, Nathan Byrne, Nicky Ajose and Louis Thompson, in came Raphael Rossi Branco, Dany N’Guessan, Ryan Mason and the surprise for all, Nile Ranger.
14 went for 3 squad changes, which seemed reasonable, but with Ranger coming in that made 4 and just one person went for that number of changes. 2pts for
Roy Carter
NICKY AJOSE = Started
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Nicky Ajose was in the starting line up for Posh, yet many of you expected him to feature in the match from the bench. That still left 7 of you predicting that he would play from the first whistle for 2pts
ctown_red
guyswonga
jason900
louiscassius
Norfolk 69er
perth red
red white
GOALS IN CHAMPIONSHIP, L1 AND L2 = 24, 33, 30
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Two punters got the Championship goal count right for 2 pts
ctown_red
jgcirencester
Three got the League One count right
Airframe-dtm
Badger58
Oxon-Red
And four the League Two goal count right
Badger58
jgcirencester
Norfolk 69er
Guyswonga
Well played to Badger58 and jgcirencester, both who managed to get 2 of the three leagues goal count right. Well done.
Points count and up to date Tables to follow later.
.Rebel_phish

NewburyNick didn’t perform too well this week. In fact what with just 5pts from the Bradford game, no points from the December questions and just 2pts for this match Nick’s fingers have truly been prised off the top spot. Badger58, on the other hand, picked up 5pts at Bradford and 13pts here. Which means that Badger leap-frogs CraftyPig, who remains 2nd, into first place. Nick drops to 3rd, but my guess is not for long.

Another big mover is our other MotM winner Norfolk69er who moves up 6 places, out of the relegation zone to 12th in the Prem.

Guyswonga moves back into the Prem, but Daziblack’s poor performance sees him drop out of the Prem to be top of the Championship.

Finally, congratutaions to Kelliz, the newest member of the 100pt club.

I will post the results of the final day matches of the FA Cup Group stages, along with the group tables later. All the points gained in the group stages will then be added to the main League Tables, where we may see some changes again to the top of the Premiership.

After that, the 4th round draw.

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I will post the results of the final day matches of the FA Cup Group stages, along with the group tables later. All the points gained in the group stages will then be added to the main League Tables, where we may see some changes again to the top of the Premiership.
After that, the 4th round draw.
.Rebel_phish

There are 39 teams in all entered into the FA Cup. The teams were put into 8 groups of 5 (Group H had only 4 teams). These teams need to be reduced down to 32. The first 4 teams in each group will progress to the 4th Round draw. These teams are allocated a ball number from 1 to 32. The ball number is dependent on where teams finished in the group.

For instance, the teams finishing top of each group are given the number 1 to 8. So the team finishing 1st in Group A will have the ball number 1, Group B ball number 2 and so on. Teams finishing 2nd will have ball numbers from 9 to 16 , and so on.

Out of the 8 Groups, only 3 had a clear outcome. The remaining 5 groups had 2 or 3 teams tied on points.

Firstly, the position of each team in the group is determined by the number of points.
If tied on points, then the positioning is determined by the outcome of the head-to-head.
If still tied, then position is determined by the point’s difference.

oz ashes wrote:
Rebel quick question mate I see 10 people got 7 points for preditiing correct score but in the Bradford game 4 people that predicted the correct result only got 6 points why is this

That my friend is a good question.

For the Correct Score question the points are awarded thus

5pts for the correct score + 1pt for each STFC goal
3pts for correct margin of result
2pts for correct number goals by either team
1pt for correct result by any other scoreline

Bradford 1-1 STFC, so 6pts
STFC 2-1 Posh, so 7pts

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[quote][p][bold]oz ashes[/bold] wrote:
Rebel quick question mate I see 10 people got 7 points for preditiing correct score but in the Bradford game 4 people that predicted the correct result only got 6 points why is this[/p][/quote]That my friend is a good question.
For the Correct Score question the points are awarded thus
5pts for the correct score + 1pt for each STFC goal
3pts for correct margin of result
2pts for correct number goals by either team
1pt for correct result by any other scoreline
Bradford 1-1 STFC, so 6pts
STFC 2-1 Posh, so 7pts
.Rebel_phish

You've been in the sun too long. I reckon it's time out there for another tinny

Haha I see your coming out to play Perth red in fa cup
Time to have a few then lol

[quote][p][bold]Rebel_phish[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]oz ashes[/bold] wrote: Cheers mate So a 3-0 win tonight will get me 9 pts Lovely[/p][/quote]You've been in the sun too long. I reckon it's time out there for another tinny[/p][/quote]Haha I see your coming out to play Perth red in fa cup
Time to have a few then loloz ashes

You've been in the sun too long. I reckon it's time out there for another tinny

Haha I see your coming out to play Perth red in fa cup
Time to have a few then lol

Just sorting out the flights now ;)

[quote][p][bold]oz ashes[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]Rebel_phish[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]oz ashes[/bold] wrote: Cheers mate So a 3-0 win tonight will get me 9 pts Lovely[/p][/quote]You've been in the sun too long. I reckon it's time out there for another tinny[/p][/quote]Haha I see your coming out to play Perth red in fa cup
Time to have a few then lol[/p][/quote]Just sorting out the flights now ;)Rebel_phish

You've been in the sun too long. I reckon it's time out there for another tinny

Haha I see your coming out to play Perth red in fa cup Time to have a few then lol

Just sorting out the flights now ;)

Remember not to wear socks with your sandlels
They laugh at that here lol

[quote][p][bold]Rebel_phish[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]oz ashes[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]Rebel_phish[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]oz ashes[/bold] wrote: Cheers mate So a 3-0 win tonight will get me 9 pts Lovely[/p][/quote]You've been in the sun too long. I reckon it's time out there for another tinny[/p][/quote]Haha I see your coming out to play Perth red in fa cup Time to have a few then lol[/p][/quote]Just sorting out the flights now ;)[/p][/quote]Remember not to wear socks with your sandlels
They laugh at that here loloz ashes

Rebel_phish wrote:
Just looking at the draw again and there is one really big stand out tie and that is CraftyPig - v Badger58 Ist v 2nd Should be a good un

Been named as the live Rebel match. Boring, they will play their reserves. We want to see a giant killing live not a practise match :-(

Roy Carter v Helpme234 would be much more exciting. Championship at home to Premiership with a real chance of an upset.

Come Rebel TV, time to show the matches we the fans want to see :-)

COYMR

[quote][p][bold]Rebel_phish[/bold] wrote:
Just looking at the draw again and there is one really big stand out tie and that is CraftyPig - v Badger58 Ist v 2nd Should be a good un[/p][/quote]Been named as the live Rebel match. Boring, they will play their reserves. We want to see a giant killing live not a practise match :-(
Roy Carter v Helpme234 would be much more exciting. Championship at home to Premiership with a real chance of an upset.
Come Rebel TV, time to show the matches we the fans want to see :-)
COYMROxon-Red